London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

The decision by Tory MP Nadine Dorries to fly to Australia to appear on a reality TV programme could be investigated by Parliament.

Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon was today considering a complaint made about the Mid-Bedfordshire MP over her stint on I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here.

David Cameron and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt today both hit out at Ms Dorries. Mr Cameron, launching a scathing attack, said: “I want Conservative MPs in the House of Commons.”

He said he had no idea she was flying out to appear on the show and said it was right that she had been suspended by his party.

Ms Dorries will miss a series of crucial Commons votes over the next month while still claiming her parliamentary salary, as well as £40,000 she is being paid for going on the show.

She has been suspended from the Tory party after it emerged she failed to tell party chiefs she was going to Australia.

A spokesman for him said: “We have received a complaint but there is not an active inquiry. It is being considered in the usual way.” The spokesman said the commissioner will aim to respond to the complaint within five days.

Ms Dorries will be summoned to explain herself to Conservative chief whip Sir George Young on her return to Britain, to discuss whether she will have the party whip restored. But she still faces deselection as a candidate after her local Conservative association reacted furiously to her actions.

Mr Hunt said people are “very worried” about Ms Dorries’s new TV career. He told ITV’s Daybreak: “I think we would rather have her in the House of Commons, to be honest.”

Ms Dorries’s daughter Cassie today took charge of her mother’s Twitter account as the row continued. She wrote: “I can confirm Nadine Dorries MP is in the jungle! I (her daughter) will be covering her Twitter in the meantime!”

She added:“ #GoMum.” It was reported today that Ms Dorries could face another investigation after it appeared that her other daughter Philippa was kept on the public payroll as a parliamentary aide in her mother’s office even after she joined a law firm as a full-time trainee. Ms Dorries’s agent today said Philippa stopped working for her mother in August and records had not been updated.